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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. What motivates one may not motivate all.

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Doctoral Distress: Graduate Program Pressures Impact Student Mental Health

Insight Into Diversity

A 2018 study published in Nature, a journal focused on advancements in science, found that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression. The financial strain of graduate education can exacerbate these challenges, leaving students juggling multiple jobs, accruing debt, or both.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. Implications for practice, research, and policy toward the future of education highlight the importance of connecting academics to workforce development (Jocson, 2018).

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Japan opens first overseas branch campus

The PIE News

The campus – known as the School of Transdisciplinary Science and Design – is found within the University of Malaya and was officially opened during a ceremony on September 2, 2024. Its opening has been six years in the making, first suggested by former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad in 2018.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. Implications for practice, research, and policy toward the future of education highlight the importance of connecting academics to workforce development (Jocson, 2018).

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.